Dress-shield.



No. 817,961. PATENTED APR. 17, 1906. E. P. DAVIS.

DRESS SHIELD.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20.1906- ll/VEN TOR WITNESSES O A TTORNEV UNITED V STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. April 17, 1906.

Application filed uly 20, 1905. Serial No. 270,440.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMILIE P. DAVIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress-Shields, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to dress-shields; and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class which may be worn in connection with any kind or class of a garment, including an ordinary shirt-waist or any style of body-garment, and which may also be connected with an ordinary corsetcover and worn in connection with said cover under a shirt-waist or other body-garment, a further object being to provide a dress-shield which is formed in connection with and constitutes a part of a sleeve member which is passed on over the arm and which may be detachably connected with a corset-cover, a shirt-waist, or any other style or class of body-garment, a further object being to provide a dress shield of the class described which is washable and which may be detached from any garment in connection with which it is worn and washed at any time, and which is also invisible when in use.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawin s form a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a back view of a body, showing my improved dress-shield connected therewith independently of any garment; Fig. 2, a similar view showing the dress-shield connected with a corset-cover, and Fig. 3 a side view of the dress-shield detached and in vertical section with parts of the construction also broken away.

In the practice of my invention I provide a dress-shield which is in the form of an inverted V in vertical section and which comprises two side members a and c and one part of this shieldthe part a as shown in the drawings-is secured in a sleeve memher 6, and said sleeve member I) in practice is preferably made from four to six inches long. In the drawings forming part of this specification the sleeve members I) are relatively longer than is necessary; but it is understood that these sleeve members may be on their outer sides by a fabric covering a the fabric covering a of that part of the shield which is in the sleeve 1) being an integral part of said sleeve, and the material of the sleeve member b forms the outer fabric coverin of the part a of the shield, and the inner fa ric covering a of said part may con sist of any suitable material, while the inner and outer coverin s a and a of the part a of the shield may a so consist of any suitable material.

The top ortion of the shield is made segmental in orm to. correspond with the bottom portion of the armhole of the garment, and it will be understood that the top portion of the shield forms the bottom of the end 6 of the sleeve 6. In practice two of these devices are employed and the bottom ends of the parts a are provided with tapes, cords, or similar devices 0, by which they may be connected around the body, and in practice when the shields are connected with a corsetcover, as shown in Fig. 2, the tapes, cords, or other devices 0 may be either inside or outside of the corset-cover. The use of the tapes, cords, or other devices 0, however, is not absolutely necessary, and said devices may or may not be employed.

When the shields are used in connection with a corset-cover, as shown in Fig. 2, the

said shields or the inner ends of the sleeves b are secured in the armholes of said corsetcover at d, and this connection may be made by means of buttons, safetypins, hooks, or any other suitable fastening devices, or the said shields may be secured in the armholes of the corset-cover by running a thread around the same, which thread may be cut when it is desired to detach the shields from the corset-cover.

It will be apparent that my improved dress-shields may be attached to the body as shown in Fig. 1, and any suitable body-garment may be worn thereover, or the said shields may be secured in the armholes of any body-garment which it is desired to wear, it being understood that the connection of the shields with a body-garment of any kind is a detachable connection.

It will also be apparent that my improved dress-shields may be Washed Whenever desired, and in this operation it is preferable to detach the same from any body-garment in connection with which they have been worn.

It will also be observed that my improved shields protect the body portion of any body garment and also the sleeves thereof, as the inner sides of the arms and the adjacent parts of the body at the armholes of a garment are both covered, as clearly shown in the drawings, the position of the sleeve members of the shields being indicated by the dotted lines 6, while the position of the parts a of the shields is shown in full lines in Fig. 1 and in dotted lines at e in Fig. 2.

In practice the sleeve members I) may be made and preferably are made full for as puffs; but my improvement is not limited to any particular shape or form of the sleeve members.

By making my improved dress-shields in the manner described and by selecting proper material the said shields may be made abso lutely invisible when in use, and a body-garment of any kind or class may thus be fully protected under all conditions.

By securing the part a of the shield in the sleeve member 6, as herein shown and described, the said part of the shield is always held in proper position with relation to the arm, and instead of making the arm part of the shield semicircular in form, as has been usual in this class of devices, said part of the 1 shield in my improvement is made oblong in form, the side lines thereof being comparatively straight. I also prefer to provide the ends of the sleeve members I) with top cords, as shown at f, whereby the ends of said sleeves may be made tight or loose, as may be desired, and it will also be apparent that any desired ornamentation may be applied to the sleeve members I).

The sleeve portion being made of ordinary fabric does not materially increase the warmth of the wearers clothing at these points even in summer.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an article of manufacture, a short cloth sleeve provided with a dress-shieldof waterproof material, said waterproof material being covered on both sides with textile fabric, one part of the said waterproof shield forming a part of the under arm portion of the sleeve, a part of said sleeve also forming the textile covering for such part of the shield, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 19th day of July, 1905.

. EMILIE P. DAVIS.-

Witnesses:

C. J. KLEIN, C. E. MULREANY. 

